Russian leader Vladimir Putin often meets with his Belarusian ally Oleksandr Lukashenko and tries to convince him to join Russia in the war against Ukraine, according to the deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Vadym Skibitsky, The Kyiv Independent reports.
Oleksandr Lukashenko’s Minsk regime is complicit in Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, facilitating the transit of Russian troops and Russian military equipment through its territory, and the country continues to be used as a launch pad for Russian missiles against Ukraine. Ukraine.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Belarus is currently preparing to receive up to 20,000 Russian troops to supplement the units already stationed in the country. Until this date, October 9, six Belarusian battalions (about 6,000 soldiers) were stationed near the border with Ukraine.
On October 4, Lukashenko accused Ukraine of deploying 15,000 troops along the border with Belarus, calling this move a “provocation.”
Putin already tried to drag Belarus into open war against Ukraine in March after Russia launched airstrikes against Belarus and blamed them on Ukraine.
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